Adam Bauer, a company spokesperson, said that
employee relocation is voluntary.
The Fortune 500 company said there are “no
layoffs associated with this move” in a quarterly
earnings report news release. It also said that
San Jose, its current home, will be a “strategic
hub for HPE innovation” where the company
will consolidate several hundred jobs from other
sites around the San Francisco Bay Area.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise was created in 2015
when the computer hardware pioneer Hewlett-
Packard Inc. broke into two parts after years of
struggling to keep up with industry trends, such as
consumers’ shift away from personal computers.
The split left one new company, HPE,
concentrated on the business of selling data
center hardware and business software, while
another new company, HP Inc., kept the
legacy PC and printer operations. HP Inc. is
still headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and
remains the bigger of the two companies in
terms of revenue.
But a piece of the original HP brand moving
out of Northern California is a loss, at least
symbolically, for the tech industry that
electronics pioneers William Hewlett and David
Packard helped start in a Palo Alto garage in
- A plaque outside the home where they
worked on their first product, an audio oscillator,
calls it the birthplace of Silicon Valley, the
“world’s first high-technology region.”
Neri told the San Jose Mercury News that the
new tech hub in San Jose will be an important
site “where we showcase all of our technology.”
“We are incredibly committed to Silicon Valley,”
he said.